filius

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin fīlius, fīlios, from Proto-Italic *feiljos (compare Faliscan hileo), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁ylios (“sucker”), a derivation from the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Related to fēmina, fellō, fētus, Old English delu (“nipple, teat”), dēon (“to suck, suckle”), Old Armenian դալ (dal). More at doe.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfiː.li.us/, [ˈfiː.li.ʊs]
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Noun

fīlius m (genitive fīliī); second declension

  1. a son
    Ubi est noster filius?
    Where is our son?
  2. (by extension) any male descendant
  3. (in the plural) children

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fīlius fīliī
Genitive fīliī
fīlī1		 fīliōrum
Dative fīliō fīliīs
Accusative fīlium fīliōs
Ablative fīliō fīliīs
Vocative fīlī fīliī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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Descendants

References

Old Latin

Etymology

From older fīlios.

Noun

fīlius m

  1. a son
    • Caecilius Statius (died ca. 168 BC); in: Scaenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta secundis curis. Volumen II. Comicorum fragmenta. – Comicorum romanorum praeter Plautum et Terentium fragmenta secundis curis, edited by Otto Ribbeck, Leipzig, 1873, page 48:
      Fílius meus ín me incedit [éccum] sat hilará schema.
    • Caecilius Statius (died ca. 168 BC); in: Remains of Old Latin, edited and translated by E. H. Warmington, vol. I, 1935, page 496f.:
      Priscianus, ap. G.L., II, 199, 17, K: 'Schema' pro 'schemate.' . . . Caecilius in Hypobolimaeo–
      . . . filius . . . in me incedit satis
      hilara schema.
      Aged peasant, guardian of the changeling Chaerestratus:
      Priscianus: 'Schema' for 'schemate.' . . . Caecilius in The Changeling–
      Here comes my son towards me in merry shape.
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